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Anonymous Tue Apr 1 13:04:48 2014 No.4725688 [DELETED]

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Are there any books like A Clockwork Orange with heavy use of an internal language or slang?

I just read it and thought it made the book very entertaining.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 1 13:07:47 2014 No.4725702 Try Riddley Walker.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 1 13:11:08 2014 No.4725719 >>4725702 Also Feersum Endjinn has some of that sort of thing. As does everything by Irvine Welsh, in fact you'd probably enjoy his stuff if you enjoyed the content of CO as well as the language.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 1 13:13:09 2014 No.4725730 Finnegan's Wake

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 1 16:20:19 2014 No.4726392 >>4725688 Trainspotting and other Irvine Welsh books contain a lot of Edinburgh dialect and slang.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 1 18:00:42 2014 No.4726745 Anything written by Arno Schmidt.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 2 00:50:55 2014 No.4728323 The book Requiem for a Dream uses a lot of internal language. It doesn't use quotation marks, so you have to decipher who is speaking through their dialect.

>>	starchump Wed Apr 2 01:27:27 2014 No.4728424 >>4728323 my friend just got this for his 14 y.o. girlfriend.. best of luck to her xb

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 2 03:01:00 2014 No.4728657 The Lord of the Rings perhaps.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 2 03:19:56 2014 No.4728684 >>4726745 he uses casual language, but not relative the the settings/characters I think? His settings change so drastically from ancient grease to dystopian future he'd have to reinvent his slang every time he writes a story

>>	Feminister !!F9QVQ82MjmE Wed Apr 2 03:20:56 2014 No.4728687 Just about anything by Derrida

>>	▲̷̨̫̺̙͠͠- !ZEN/cgElFM Wed Apr 2 08:01:16 2014 No.4729182 File: 314 KB, 850x315, I Am Jack's Haiku.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fight Club.

>>	▲̷̨̫̺̙͠͠- !ZEN/cgElFM Wed Apr 2 08:05:16 2014 No.4729190 There's also Catcher in the Rye for slang x1000, but it isn't like A Clockwork Orange.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 2 08:17:16 2014 No.4729217 1984 had a big part about the new language. I really liked the concept and how there was an appendix explaining the details and grammar.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 2 08:43:16 2014 No.4729283 >>4725688 The two far-future sections of Cloud Atlas use a lot of neologisms that function the same way at the slang in Clockwork Orange.

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